The Australian dollar nudged higher in light trading today, with much of Asia closed for the Lunar New Year celebrations and a public holiday in Japan. By late afteroon, the Aussie was trading at $US1.0301, up from US$1.0299 late Friday. ...
Running the world's most popular website, Google engineers know a thing or two about keeping a site responsive under very high demand. In the latest issue of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) monthly magazine, Google reveals a ...
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Editor's note: This story has been updated based on corrected information from T-Mobile to clarify the status of the shared data plans for business. T-Mobile USA plans to lure new business customers with shared data plans and no early ...
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Rigaku Corporation is pleased to announce the publication of a new application report describing stainless steel analysis using wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF) spectrometry. The report highlights the performance of the ...
Flowers Foods has expanded its market share in the wake of Hostess Brands move to wind down its operations. The US baker has been named the "stalking horse" bidder for the majority of Hostess Brands' bread business. While the assets will ...
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Dropbox today announced a new synchronization API for iOS and Android-powered devices that it said will offer developers a new code library to help them better focus on creating mobile apps. The new API is available today on Dropbox's ...
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iOS jailbreaks may come and go, but Apple continues to warn that hacking an iPhone to install unapproved software, while not illegal, may void the device's service warranty. The latest jailbreak -- the term for leveraging a vulnerability ...
City analyst Investec has criticised the “revolving door” at Premier Foods, after another key member of its management team left the firm this week. Room at the top: first ceo Clarke and now chief operating officer Eaton have ...
Oracle is hitting back hard at a recently released Forrester Research report that suggested most customers aren’t interested in moving up to the vendor’s next-generation Fusion Applications, which were released about 18 months ...
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Free from the bright lights of Wall Street, Dell's decision to go private is likely to lead to the company downplaying if not entirely eliminating consumer products in favor of building out its enterprise product portfolio, analysts said. ...
Apple sold more phones in Japan than any other manufacturer last year, rising above local manufacturers for the first time, according to a research firm. The report from Counterpoint Research, based in Hong Kong, said Apple had a 15% ...
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For those who call tablets personal computers, Apple Inc. is the world's top PC maker, according to research firm Canalys. Canalys reported Wednesday that one in five PCs shipped in the fourth quarter of 2012 was an Apple device, and most ...
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Alcatel-Lucent reported a fourth-quarter loss of $1.81 billion and revenue declined by 1.3%, and that it has started hunting for a new CEO. Current CEO Ben Verwaayen will step down as soon as a replacement is found, and will not seek ...
New software capable of dredging social media websites, mining people's social networks and "predicting their behaviour", has been developed by defence contractor Raytheon. The software, called Rapid Information Overlay Technology (RIOT), ...
Site statistics collected by Style in View, a search engine which aggregates clothes, shoes and accessories from highstreet and online retailers like ASOS, John Lewis and Marks & Spencer, revealed lingerie to be the most popular search term ...
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